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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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Results for ex-offender, employment
2 results foundAuthor: Pager, Devah Title: Investigating Prisoner Reentry: The Impact of Conviction Status on the Employment Prospects of Young Men Summary: This research addresses the problem of prisoner reentry by focusing on the employment of ex-offenders shortly after release. The authors completed a three-part project to study the employment barriers facing men with criminal records. The empirical core of the project is a randomized field experiment that sent matched teams of testers to apply for hundreds of entry-level jobs in New York City. The experiment observed how employers respond to applicants who are equally qualified but vary by race, ethnicity, and criminal record. Because the research design allowed the researchers to finely control charcteristics of job seekers, and randomly assign criminal records and job openings, the experimental data yields unusually clear and convincing evidence of the impact of a criminal record. The audit study alone would provide a powerful method for studying the employment barriers to ex-offenders, but it is complemented here by a telephone survey of the same employers, and in-depth qualitative interviews with an additional subset. Combining experimental measures with interview data offers a unique opportunity to study the hiring process from both the job seeker's and the employer's point of view. Policies supoprting prisoner reentry and ex-offender employment are directly informed by the rich data resulting from the multi-stage investigation. Details: Unpublished Report to the U.S. National Institute of Justice, 2009. 42p. Source: Internet Resource Year: 2009 Country: United States URL: Shelf Number: 118564 Keywords: Ex-Offender, EmploymentPrisoner Reentry |
Author: Smith, Sandra Susan Title: Searching for Work with a Criminal Record Summary: To date, researchers have been very attentive to how the stigma of criminality informs employers’ hiring decisions, and, in the process, diminishes ex-offenders’ employment opportunities. Few, however, have investigated the extent to which the mark of a criminal record also shapes ex-offenders’ search strategies in ways that might either attenuate or amplify ex-offender effects. We fill this gap in the literature by investigating how arrest and conviction influence the search strategies that employed and unemployed job-seekers deploy to find work. Analysis of NLSY97 reveals that much of the disadvantage of penal contact comes with arrest, not conviction. Compared to non-arrestees, arrestees are less likely to search through friends and relatives, labor market intermediaries, and go-it-alone strategies. Lower odds of search across methods likely signify the disillusionment that these job-seekers feel after early attempts to find work fail. Further analysis reveals, however, that arrestees’ employment disadvantages are specific to their use of two methods. Go-it-alone strategies reduce arrestees’ odds that a search will end successfully (with a job), and network search significantly lengthens search duration. But labor market intermediation emerges as an equalizing force, moderating the effect of ex-offender status on employment outcomes. Significantly, too, race and gender mediate the relationships between search methods and search outcomes, highlighting how these axes of difference also help to structure ex-offenders’ labor market experiences. Details: Berkeley, CA: Department of Sociology University of California, Berkeley, 2012. 42p. Source: Internet Resource: Working Paper: Accessed July 24, 2012 at: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/csls/SmithSandraSEARCHING_WORKwith_CRIMINAL_RECORD-Jan_2012.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United States URL: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/csls/SmithSandraSEARCHING_WORKwith_CRIMINAL_RECORD-Jan_2012.pdf Shelf Number: 125753 Keywords: Ex-Convict, EmploymentEx-Offender, EmploymentLabor Market |